• @[email protected]
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    I would accept “I work for the team that tries to detect ad blockers on YouTube, and slow down the process with bureaucracy.”

    • Eager Eagle
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      colleague of the marketing guy that just makes up metrics to pretend to his boss and stakeholders that their work on ads makes any difference

      laudable professionals

      • @Mango
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        Boys, we did it. We made a right with two wrongs!

    • @eyeon
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      just say I help improve ad blockers on YouTube and refuse to elaborate.

  • @Agent641
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    1. Get a job working for Google making anti-adblockers.

    2. Use your 20% time contributing to FOSS stealth adblocker and anti-anti-adblockers.

    3. ???

    4. Profit for life

    • @yogi_pogi
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      This was actually my life a few years ago.

      I was hardening our applications to stop scraping and automation bots.

      Then contributing to open-source to have better scraping and automation.

      I wasn’t purposely creating loop holes or anything because that’s highly illegal. It’s about making sure both sides “play nice”, because the automation bots are frequently used by spammers/evildoers.

  • @[email protected]
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    Cards on the table: for Google money I’d do it too. If they want to enshittify their product until the competition has a fighting chance, who am I to stop them? Sure, it’s an annoying and anticonsumer thing to do. But making a “free” product’s bad qualities harder to circumvent isn’t the ethical hill I’m going to die on.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      But, who’s their competitor? They have none. All the other alternative have very specific community (artsy short film, science, etc)

      • JackbyDev
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        816 days ago

        Yeah, I don’t really get the argument here. As much as it sucks, it’s not nearly as morally reprehensible as something like weapons. If you don’t do it someone else will. It’s not something a handful of devs are gonna make a difference in by boycotting and it isn’t worth being fired over or not accepting a job over.

        • @[email protected]
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          Advertising is absolutely morally reprehensible. It is propaganda that exists only to manipulate people into buying shit they didn’t want or need. And it turns out that mindless consumerism is destroying society and our planet.

          • @[email protected]
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            You can’t make better people and better cattle at the same time.

            Imagine you were a billionaire. Which do you want?

          • JackbyDev
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            116 days ago

            I never said it wasn’t morally reprehensible. Only that it’s less morally reprehensible than something like making weapons.

        • @[email protected]
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          Last time i watched youtube unprotected it had a higher fcking ad frequency than television. And they were put in the stupidest places imaginable, making the video unwatchable. And i’m fucking genx, so i grew up way before the concept of avoiding ads.

          There’s funding your product then there’s just being a piece of shit

    • comfy
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      I would take the job just to make sure we can sabotage it. And I’m not even affected by their adblocker detection; I just yt-dlp and NewPipe the videos.

  • @bestelbus22
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    Video hosting costs a lot of money. I wouldn’t expect that to be delivered for free

    • Johanno
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      Well then make Premium a reasonable price.

      And just don’t provide stuff for free. Nobody forces alphabet to provide youtube without account and for free.

      It was a money sink since Google created it

    • @HStone32
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      They had a good thing going. YouTube was far from unprofitable. But the skyrocketing density and plummeting quality of ads drove people to adblockers.

      I suspect though, the day will soon come when ad-space is no longer quite so valuable.

      • @[email protected]
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        It was fine until “the adpocalypse”, when advertisers pulled their ads because they were being shown with offensive videos.

        While YouTube has been trying to fix the problem the quality of the ads has reduced. So many advertisers now only go through sponsorship, which doesn’t give any share to YouTube.

    • @bigFab
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      Youtube servers are terrible. Why not focus on offering a smoother experience? Then charge what you want.

      • @bestelbus22
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        What’s terrible about them? I have no issues here in west Europe

  • @[email protected]
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    Feeld mild today are we? I would give him five, but only if I could resist throwing him out myself.

  • davel [he/him]
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    This is the ideal tech worker. You may not like it, but this is what peak technology looks like.